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Hi low :hattip:

Just an enquiry is it possible to delete a distro off the front end of the drive, as I have 2 in no. and repartition the the whole drive with gparted and just leaving 1 distro on it.

THANK YOU

:scratch:

Certainly possible. You may have to reinstall grub and modify menu.lst/grub.conf or grub.cfg (depending on which version of grub your distro uses) to properly point your bootable kernel (and initial ramdisk, if you have one)

I agree with RockDoctor that you will need to modify Grub. More information would be helpful. You don't indicate what is on the partitions. Are they both Linux distributions or a mix? If both Linux, are you booting from the Grub on sda1 or sda2. If you delete sda1, sda2 will become sda1.

Hi low

thank your for replys.

The front end is linux mint back half have is ubuntu 10. I have tried gparted which is on ubuntu but it won't let delete, it will let resize, but that's all

Do it from a liveCD to ensure the partitions aren't mounted.

hi low

Thank you for your answers, I normally make backups, just in case something does go wrong, theirs something else, I'm surprised, you didn't reply with why don't you just reformat and start again. TO EASY.


THANK YOU

Hellooo!

I'm actually in the same boat as drakeone!

I have both Ubuntu and Linux Mint on my computer, but have found that I no longer use the Ubuntu partition and I want Mint to absorb that hard drive space.

Normally I would just reinstall, as I often do that once a year or so anyway after a couple new versions of Ubuntu have come out.

But, I would like to learn how to do more things with Linux instead of just taking the easy way out.

That said, at the moment I do not know HOW to modify Grub. I will do some searching through the forums, but please feel free to give me some pointers if you don't mind. KTHXBYE :-)

Information needed to give you any advice would be partitions information which can be obtained by running sudo fdisk -l command (lower case Letter L in the command). Also when you post, indicate which partition has Ubuntu and which has Mint.